Category Archives: Art

Yale Finally Opens Up

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Yale University has just opened up its museum archives to the public providing limited free online access to images from its vast cultural collections. Currently, they’ve offered access to 250,000 images at their new online catalog, with the goal of … Continue reading →

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Buenos Aires Has the Tower of Babel

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Best known for her amazing installations, Argentinian conceptual artist Marta Minujin has created the new “Tower of Babel” in Plaza San Martin, Buenos Aires. Built to celebrate Buenos Aires being named World Book Capital 2011, the seven-story sculpture contains 30,000 … Continue reading →

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Antwerp Throws a MAS Bash

Posted on May 14, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Antwerp, Belgium’s great port city and best kept travel secret, started a three day celebration bash yesterday to launch its audacious new MAS museum. The spectacular 10-story museum, which takes its name from the Dutch acronym for Museum on the … Continue reading →

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Celebrate Poster Art

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

 

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Art of the Streets

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Brian D. Butler
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Please Come to Boston…

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

From May 3rd until June 19th visitors to Boston’s sublime Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will get a chance to see seven rare Venetian manuscripts from the museum’s extensive rare books collection. The exhibition , called Illuminating the Serenissima: Books of … Continue reading →

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The Art of the Car

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

The Musée des Arts Paris is now presenting “The Art of the Automobile” , which features 17 fabulous cars from Ralph Lauren’s amazing car collection. The cars on display—among them Bentley, Mercedes, Jaguar, Ferrari and Bugatti—provide a visual timeline for … Continue reading →

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Free Ai Weiwei

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Internationally acclaimed Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has re-interpreted the twelve bronze animal heads representing the traditional Chinese zodiac that once adorned the famed fountain-clock of the Yuanming Yuan, an imperial retreat in Beijing. Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads is the … Continue reading →

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Freedom of The Press

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Compass Books of San Francisco commissioned Oakland, CA sculptor Shaun Hibma Cronan to create The Press. Handcrafted from bamboo, oak, cork, rope and steel, The Press will be on display at the Compass Book store in San Francisco International Airport. … Continue reading →

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Mapping Cities – by nose

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

  Artist Sissel Tolaas is half-Icelandic, half-Norwegian and lives in Berlin. Her artwork explores the sense of smell by examining how people detect and describe odors. She’s particularly interested in how smell impacts the experience of the world around us. Her … Continue reading →

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